A bipartisan effort in Congress to restrain immigration enforcement tactics is flailing despite a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The pattern is increasingly familiar.
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El Paso Matters President and CEO Bob Moore covers top stories each week.
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The New Mexico Environment Department and the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority signed a settlement that saw CRRUA being fined nearly $200,000.
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Doña Ana County International Jetport Manager Jody Young talks with KC Counts about how Wednesday's flight restrictions impacted the Jetport.
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The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso.
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Doña Ana County Commissioners view presentation on the Parks, Recreation and Community Centers Master Plan, approved funding for a food pantry, and approved two new positions in yesterdays BOCC meeting.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said cameras installed on streetlights and poles by a company called Flock collect data on people who are not suspected of any crime.
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Jessica Tang, president of the American Federation of Teachers Resistance Committee, said they are training local chapter members to interact with ICE using nonviolent tactics.
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New Mexico has about 160 cattle CAFOs, mostly dairy farms, around areas such as Clovis and Roswell – far fewer than states such as Iowa, North Carolina or Texas, where both cattle and hog confinements number in the thousands.
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A contentious bill to dramatically reduce New Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions remains in play at this year’s legislative session after two hearings.
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A federal judge in Illinois quickly issued a restraining order after the Trump administration slashed more than $600 million in CDC grants to four blue states.
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U.S. snowboarders psych themselves up before competition with heavy metal and pop music, cat photos, and apparently many on the men's halfpipe team now do Qigong.
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In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was "disproportionate."
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The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
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Emerald Fennell's extravagant adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic cares little for subtlety. Ultimately, this love affair is more photogenic than it is deeply moving.